304 Point St-Pierre, N.B. 1876. (April 18) to get any down. Fired about twenty shots after at an average distance of about 50 yds. as the birds run very shy of the boat. Shot into the boat 3 birds, 4 coot & sold (squaw?) a Q but little larger than a teal. Besides then we shot many others that scaled off and dropped too far off to be recovered. Their tenacity of life is perfectly wonderful and hard that of any other bird that I have shot. A male Q. Am. that we shot down from a flock don repeatedly and we finally shot it again with 1/3 knocking it on its back when it lay kicking its feet in the air until we got very near it when it turned over swam a few yard calling loudly & then went down again & when a long distance under water. This was actually repeated three times before the bird could be caught, one of shot knocking 't on fairly. I discovered the true note of the O. perspicillata; it is a short qua, qua, quac quim when flying as observed to day. The flight of all them species of coots is perfectly identical. Any of them always pass the brant casily and in a few minutes have taken far behind. The shooting is very wasting when birds fly as they did to day, and the flock presents a very pretty appearance as they come shifty up on the water at times